On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:09:03PM CET, "li...@rhsoft.net" <li...@rhsoft.net> said: > > Am 03.11.2014 um 16:04 schrieb Kurt Petersen: > >I've just installed Debian with Postfix and MySQL. Later I found out > >that I also needed the postfix-mysql package. > > > >I now get an error that Postfix cannot connect to > >/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > > does it exist? > > >Does anybody got a hint? > > you provide no information about your config > > * make sure mysqld is running > * verify that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock is the socket > configured for mysqld > * if not adjust your postfix configuratoon
And check whether your postfix is chrooted, if yes adjust (either move the socket inside the chroot or deactivate the chroot for postfix)